Process Modeling

Process and product improvement

In the food industry, it’s all about improving the cost efficiency of processes and the quality of products.

Optimizing processes in the traditional way, mostly by a trial and error approach, is elaborate and time consuming. Would you like to know beforehand what will happen if you take new products or formulations into production? The modeling tools developed by NIZO food research might be what you are looking for!

Wide range of models

NIZO has developed modeling applications for predicting the microbial shelf life of products like drinks and sauces, and a range of models to predict the outcome of processes like heat treatment, falling-film evaporation, spray drying, fluid-bed drying, membrane separation and cheese production. The models were developed in close collaboration with process and product experts from industry and have been validated on a large scale.

True results

In many projects in which NIZO’s models were applied, major improvements were obtained in reducing costs, improving product quality, and reducing risks and time-to-market for new or existing products.